Word: adroitness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lecture structure has depended largely on adroit references to the incomparably wide range of literatures and artists of Borges' experience--from oriental philosophers to Homer, Tacitus, Pope, Mossetti, Gongora, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Baudelaire, Dante, Yeats (all of whom he seems to know intimately. He believes that since literature already contains all possible ideas, he can say anything by allusion to one of his predecessors...
Have a lot of people underestimated George C. Wallace? His adroit performance last week left even the skeptics concerned about his effect on the 1968 election. "If you dismiss him out of hand as a clown in an Uncle Sam suit," said Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "you make a grievous error. He is a tough, competent, shrewd politician who has support within the guts of the American electorate-the low income white voters...
Harvard's nervousness was now compounded by a loss of confidence. Even normally adroit stickhandlers like Bobby Bauer and Ron Mark couldn't control the puck. Crimson passes were all a shade off target, and pucks invariably hopped over or off Harvard sticks...
...visitors had a good chance to get back in the game when Harvard's Don Grimble was sent off the ice for hooking at 12:20, and Fredo and Parrot were penalized two and three minutes later. But Harvard, benefiiting from adroit penalty-killing by Dwight Ware and Chip Otness, held off the Terriers for more than four short-handed minutes...
...process. Iowa's truculent H. R. Gross came within five votes of relegating the bill once again to a Senate-House conference with the stipulation that the U.S. cut off aid to Poland as long as that country continues to trade with North Viet Nam. By some adroit parliamentary legerdemain, House leaders delayed a final tally until they could persuade a crucial handful of members to defect to their side...